Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-16

time-2 35lS.,
The 2:29 iiot was won by Wilmont, en-
tered by Bob Stewart, Kansas City. Time
The pacing race for the 2:35 class was won
| by Birdie l., entered by j. B. Legard, Wau-
kegan. Best time-2:So4.
Local Sporting News.
The Omaha Wheel club will make the run
| to Lake Manawa and return ON Sunday.
st. Joe will be here two weeks from to-day
| to do battle with the invinclble Omahas.
Arthur Briggs, of the Omaha board of di-
| rectors, had an offer for Walsh yesterday.
There is prospect of general revival of
| sports OF all kinds here in the early autumn.
The Omahas were not beaten at Kansas
City yesterday. Why? Because they didn't
| play.
Omaha now boasts of four fully organized
| gun clubs, and will soon be one Of the shoot
| Ing counties oflthe country.
| Frank Hays trainer and quondum pu-
gilst of Evanston, WyO.. will locate in
| Omaha and go into the saloon business.
The Omahas haven't any use for such
| pitchers as McGuiniss, Watson or Ed Moeon
Harper, from Harper's Ferry, is good enough
| for them.
The entries in the colt stakes for the COM
| ing fair far excel those of any former year.
| These stakes are of especial interests to local
| horse breeders.
Jeutzeni the six-footer from Syracuse, will
catch tor the Omahas to-day. lie has the
| look OF ball player and 1t Is dollars to
dimes that he is one.
Mr. George Kay will go down to Lincoln
Saturday to attend the meeting OF the West
| ern league directory that President Thew
| will call for Sunday.
Prof. Hurst, brother-in-iaw Of Jack
Burke, the Irish lad, is in the city. lie Is a
jolly. red faced Englishman. and has made a
good record IN the ring.
FusSelbach made pretty mess OF 1t in his
first game with the local nine, fumblinC and
laundering with the proficiency and skill OF
our Oldest and best players.
Lincoln's train of victories was broken by
the pennant searchers at Topeka yesterday,
and in consequence gloom has settled over
the capital thick enough to cut with knife.
There is noticeable scarcity of good bird
dogs in Omaha, which is rather remarkable
considering tine multitudnousneSs,a and mul-
titudnousness is good, of her lovers of the
| gun.
| In an interview with a Kansas City re-
porter Manager Philbin is reported to have
said that the principal difficulty with the
| Omaha team Is to be attributed to their pro-
| pensity to lush"
| Harper, the new Omaha pitcher, is roasted
alive by the Kansas City papers. The Times
says the principal discrepancy IN the young
man is his aptitude to indulge In slesta after
the delivery of every ball.
| Several good bags OF wOodcock have been
made in the cornhelds in the southern part
of the state during the past week. IL. A.
Penrose and number of other gentlemen
have arranged for couple of days shoot
about the middle of the coming week.
A vast amount of interest is being evinced
in bicycle circles over the ten mile race that
| is to come Off at the ball park Sunday after
noon between Jack Prince, the local cham
pion, and S. G. Whitaker, the Chicago ce-
lebrity. Prince is booked as winner.
The management of the Omahas, notwith-
standing repeated disappontments and con-
tnued adversity are determined to strengthen
S WORK @ ns s hard at the the attainment Of this de-,
sirabIe end, and Will yet get together nine
There is a good deal of inquiry about the
chicken law for this state, and the BEE IS en-
ahled to authoritively state the, close OF the
season ends with the last day of August.
The crop is unprecedentedly large all over
the state, the season of notification and
hatching having been uncommonly pro-
| ptiOus.
Messrs. Whitaker and Knapp go to Rose
ville N. j., after the races here Sunday next
! and the Sunday following, where, under the
, handling of Mi. Eek, they go into training
for the worlds championship races, to come
| off at Springfield in August Knapp Is down
for a match race on August 4, at Roseyll!e,
with w. A. Rowe, the champion Dyker OF the
| world.
Mr. John Petty, foreman in Penrose &
, Hardin's gun shops, is a thorough lover OF
west. There is none OF the grand-stand
looking-glass element in Petty; lie, Is a
. sporting gentleman of the good old-fashioned
| ScIOOl, HOIc ~ uOiuO oNSi uoS tAuh uCHluu
the trap.
, Mr. John Calendar, a leading sporting
: man of Columbus, o., and DR.. Sheppard, OF
. the same place, followers of the gun, and
| adopts in tiuvial science, will spend the
month of September in Omaha with the
| view of radiating over the state for chicken
and fish. Callendar has record of l53 NAL
: lards in single days shoot on the lower Iii
o nols in the fall of '75
q Mcssrs. Ed and Herb Rothery are con
tempatlng an athletic exhibition on an elab
n crate scale In the near future, to embrace
= wrestling. sparrng, ciub-swinging, wire
They are in correspondence with some well
n known artists in the different liLes and TIN
= exhibition will be legitimate, first class ell
tertainment in all particulars.
3 ing tournament has been liked for Septembe
D 20, 81, 22 and 90. Invitations will be extende,
Y to all the best known shots IN the country
and every effort will be made TO make tn
9 shotgun tourney ever held in the west Bot
n Bogardus and Carver will probably be amoni
D. the distinguished guests.
Tommy Miller, the local light weight VIII
Is shortly to meet Tommy Warren, has ha'
an extensive and varied career. He wa
II nine years before the mast and has circun
y navigated the globe several times His eH
perence as an athlete and rough and tumbl
Z pugiist in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
would make good sized volume of this sol
of literature. He was thirteen months in tn
Antipodes, made short sojourns at Aucklan
y and Honolulu, was several weeks In PeklI
a China, served in the Chilian and Peruvia
war, and has touched at every .promineI
point in the old and new world. lie has ais
seen service In the United States navy, an
S. made one or two cruises on an Austrian maj
O Of-war. lie has seen the elephant
~ thoroughly as his limited years would perm
'h OF and his "reminiscences of life in distar
,d lands are as thrilling as they are interesting
lie His ambition now is to go up against u
it pngilistic wonder from the Pacific slope, an
T. while he doesn't say he can whip Warrel
he ayows q determination to surprise Il
!. alleged authorities ,who.are essaying to b